SHAUN COOLWELL DIED IN POLICE CUSTODY AT LOGAN ON THE 2ND. OCTOBER.
THE FAMILY HAD CALLED FOR AN AMBULANCE AS SHAUN NEEDED URGENT MEDICAL ATTENTION. HE WAS LOSING BLOOD FROM A CUT ARTERY.
‘TEN COP CARS TURNED UP. SHAUN NEEDED HELP. HE WAS SMASHED TO THE FLOOR AND HANDCUFFED AND ARRESTED. BY THE TIME SHAUN WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL IT WAS TOO LATE. HE WAS DECLARED DECEASED.
JUSTICE FOR SHAUN COOLWELL.
STOP BLACK DEATHS IN CUSTODY !!!
SATURDAY 24TH. OCTOBER.
RALLY AT PARLIAMENT HOUSE AT 11AM.
MARCH ON THE POLICE HQ AT ROMA STREET AND WE WILL DEMAND AN URGENT MEETING WITH THE POLICE COMMISSIONER.
PARLIAMENT HOUSE GEORGE STREET AT 11AM. MARCH TO POLICE HQ AND THEN TO MUSGRAVE PARK.
WE DEMAND JUSTICE FOR SHAUN.
THE COPS MUST BE CHARGED WITH CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE.
STOP BLACK DEATHS IN CUSTODY !!!
phone – Sam Watson ( 0401227443 )
Music
The Young Dancer is Dead by Kev Carmody
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https://youtu.be/qDX9-b8ULog
Rally against police killing of Shaun Coolwell (Part II)
Members of the Brisbane Aboriginal Community spell out to the politicians and police what we want to stop aboriginal deaths in custody.
Sam Watson – welcome to country and introduction.
Fred Coolwell – stop police killing our people!
Murri woman – stay strong, be black!
Lionel Fogarty – advice to people about struggle against deaths in custody and poem
https://youtu.be/nc3FYMIV42g
https://youtu.be/OeQp-KCD0xY
For I Come – Death In Custody
http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/fogarty-lionel/for-i-come-death-in-custody-0214033
https://youtu.be/FfICkCQAX8A
Shaun Coolwell was born on 12 June 1982.
He was a twin, a loving uncle, brother and son. He comes from the formidable Coolwell clan from country near Tambourine Mountain.
Along with the Sandi’s and the Thompson’s, the Coolwell’s are part of the strong Mununjali mob from Beaudesert. For example Sam Watson’s great grandad was a Coolwell, born in 1850. A strong man who lived in a ring barking camp and would come to town in Beaudesert with his countrymen, give the locals in the pubs a hiding for stealing their land and go back to working in the bush. Hard work.
At Shaun’s funeral yesterday his niece and nephew, uncles and aunties, sisters testified to his loving spirit. They wore T shirts which said ‘Our Land’.
I strongly encourage people to attend supporters of justice to attend the rally at parliament this Saturday 24 October and to march with the family and their supporters in their demand for justice. Police murder must stop.
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Ian Curr
23 October 2015
Music
Warumpi band – My Island Home (1987)
[George Burarrwanga on vocals and didgeridoo, Gordon Butcher on drums, his brother Sammy Butcher on guitar and bass guitar, and Neil Murray on rhythm guitar and backing vocals. George Burarrwanga passed away in 2007 of lung cancer.]
Justice for Shaun indeed over this yet another appalling death in custody. Aboriginal deaths in custody must be made the issue that blocks Australia from securing a place on the UN Human Rights Committee.